On the next pages are some examples of GTs from German and Chinese into English. Note the following:
• GT is not static. You can insert the same text in different periods and get very different translations as highlighted by my examples from 2010 and 2016.
• The quality varies massively from language to language. The German GT translations are completely intelligible and the 2016 version seems to be an improvement on the 2010 version. On the other hand, neither the 2010 or 2016 versions of the Chinese original seem to make much sense (not helped by the lack of punctuation).
• The GT translations of the German original (right-hand columns) use far fewer words, whereas the manual version (bottom left-hand column) uses more. However, this has something to do with German using many compound nouns that need to be split when rendered in English. The manual version was written by an ESP native-English speaking teacher, starting from scratch (i.e.
it is not a revision of the GT version).
• The English version (written by a Chinese PhD student) of the Chinese text is still diffi cult to penetrate and would still need a lot of further work. Her ver- sion is a revision of the GT version rather than starting from scratch. It may also be that the original Chinese text was fairly obscure, thus, any translation is likely to be even more obscure.
• In the German example, ABC stands for the name of a company. In the Chinese example, TPL stands for third party liability.
Of course, GT can't perform miracles: it very much depends on how good the origi- nal text is (i.e. garbage in, garbage out). But if there is a moral to the story and if my examples are in any way representative, then GT does a pretty good job with major European languages. In fact, it may well be much faster for your students to write in their own language, then translate it using GT and then revise it, than for them to write directly in English - I am well aware that this statement is likely to horrify many teachers but I am convinced that this is the direction we are heading in.
Original German Google Translate 2010
Weil sich die Dinge verọndern
Rasante Verọnderungen prọgen das heutige Berufsleben. Die moderne Wirtschaftswelt verlangt tọglich sich den komplexer werdenden Unternehmensprozessen anzupassen und vorausschauend zu planen. Mitarbeiter müssen fl exibel, schnell und zuverlọssig reagieren kửnnen. Der Wissenstransfer wird zu einem entscheidenden Faktor in der
Wertschửpfungskette. Sie bei der Analyse, Ausarbeitung von Lửsungen, der Umsetzung und Betreuung geeigneter Maònahmen zu unterstỹtzen ist das Kerngeschọft und die Kernkompetenz der ABC. Die Lửsung wird immer individuell auf Ihre Bedürfnisse zugeschnitten sein und bei kontinuierlicher Verọnderung entsprechend weiterentwickelt.
Sukzessive kửnnen Qualifi zierungsmodule ausgebaut und miteinander verknüpft werden.
Im Rahmen einer ganzheitlichen Personal- und Organisationsentwicklungsstrategie erhalten Sie von uns bewọhrte Lernmanagement-Systeme gebündelt und auf Abruf. Alles aus einer Hand.
Wir machen Bildung. Modular. ( 111 words )
Because things are changing Rapid changes characterize today's professional life. The modern business world demands every day to adapt to the increasingly complex business processes and to plan ahead.
Employees must be able to respond fl exibly quickly and reliably the knowledge becomes a decisive factor in the value chain. Assist you in analyzing developing solutions implementation and maintenance of appropriate measures is the core business and core competence of ABC. The solution will be tailored more specifi cally to your needs and continuous change with this.
Successive training modules can be expanded and linked. As part of an integrated human resources and organizational strategy you will receive proven learning management systems are bundled and on-demand.
Everything from one source. We make education. Modular. ( 118 words )
Manual translation done by native English speaker
Google Translate 2016
Because Change Happens
Modern day professional life is subject to rapid changes. Today’s business world requires us to adapt to increasingly complex corporate processes and to plan for the future almost on a daily basis. Employees have to be able to react fl exibly, quickly and reliably. Knowledge transfer is becoming a crucial link in the value-added chain. Supporting them -- and you -- in analysing needs, developing solutions, and implementing and
accompanying appropriate measures is ABC's core business and core competence. Solutions will always be tailored to your individual needs and developed further in line with ongoing change. Qualifi cation modules can be expanded and interconnected with one another.
As part of our holistic personnel and organisational development strategy, you will have access to tried and tested learning management systems, bundled and available at the touch of a button -- all under one roof.
Education and Training is our business.
Delivered modularly. ( 147 words )
Because things change
Rapid changes characterize today's working life. The modern economic world requires daily to adapt to complex business processes and to plan ahead.
Employees must be able to react fl exibly quickly and reliably the transfer of knowledge is a decisive factor in the value chain. When analysis to support development of solutions the implementation and maintenance of appropriate measures is the core business and core competency of ABC. The solution is always to be tailored to your individual needs and developed in accordance with continuous change.
Successive qualifi cation modules can be expanded and linked. As part of a holistic human resources and organizational development strategy you will get proven learning management systems bundled and on-demand. All from one hand. We do education. Modular. ( 122 words ; 46 changes with respect to the 2010 version )
original Chinese Google 2010 在本文,我们试图研究了存货质押融资
业务中银行激励和监督TPL的问题。
尽管对存货融资问题的研究在很 久以前就已出现,但是有关银行激励和 监督TPL的研究和文献还很少。我们 相信本文是较早利用委托代理模 型来研究银行如何使TPL更加努力的 文献之一。在本文,我们特别关注了在 中小企业参与下的TPL报酬和努 力水平的变化,并从简单的激励和激励 监督两个方面研究了这种变化。并且, 在中小企业的参与下,我们
介绍了两种参与方式:协助参与和合 作参与。
In this article we attempt to study the inventory fi nancing business incentives and supervision of Bank TPL issues. Although the research on inventory fi nancing had already appeared in a long time ago but the motivation and supervision of banks TPL little research and literature. We believe this is an earlier model used to study the agent bank how to make more efforts to document one of the TPL. In this article we paid particular attention to the participation of SMEs in the TPL return and the effort level changes and simple encouragement and motivation from the supervision of the two aspects of this change. Moreover the
participation of SMEs we introduced two ways to participate: participation and cooperation to help participate.
English translation by Chinese PhD student
Google 2016 In this paper we attempt to study the
incentives and supervision mechanism between a bank and TPL. Although research on inventory fi nancing began a long time ago, there is little research and literature on how a bank should motivate and supervise the TPL. We believe this is an earlier model used to study how the bank makes TPL more efforts. In our research we paid particular attention to the change of the TPL’s rewards and its effort level with SME’s participation and displayed the changes from two aspects: simple incentive measures and incentive-and- supervision measures. Moreover, we introduced two ways participation:
Assisted participation and cooperative participation.
In this article we attempt to study the problem of inventory fi nancing business incentives and supervision TPL's banks.
Although research on inventory fi nancing issues in a very It had appeared long ago but the bank incentives and supervision of research and literature TPL little. We believe this paper is the use of agency earlier mold How to type to make one more effort to research bank documents TPL. In this article we are particularly concerned about the participation of SMEs in the TPL remuneration and effort Changes in force levels and studied the change from simple encouragement and incentives supervise two aspects. And with the participation of SMEs we It describes two ways to participate:
Assist the participation and cooperation participation.